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Clarissa: “curiosity must overcome the desire to create” has to be up there with “In combat between you and the world, prefer the world” as a useful strategy for experiencing the world. If there is no reality outside me then what is the nature of what I sense is outside of me? Or am I getting in my own way by constantly interpreting what comes to me as “the world” into a model of the world? So I seem the be split into 3 parts:

1. myself as the neural pathways built into my brain and called “experience” that could actually be a kind “blindness” because of bias or a need for sense
2. an intermediate place of enactment of the raw input the world presents me to process
3. a generative reality that is beyond my view

If I choose the world then #2 is likely as far as I can get as #3 may be only an imaginary place built by me to support the first two. Hopefully some of this can be tested when I go back for more surgery and reality is turned on its head again.

It’s interesting that I can’t “get into” Maturana and Varela or Larossa but things seem clearer explained by Bachelard and Maria Moraes. At least to the point that I can start thinking about what they say. Thanks for this.

Scott, this is wonderful. You ask: “If there is no reality outside me then what is the nature of what I sense is outside of me?” I say the nature of what is outside of you, and which you do not experience, is part of other worlds, others’ worlds, others’ realities. The nature of that from our perspective is contemplation.